Sune Jonsson
14 Feb - 22 Mar 2009
SUNE JONSSON
And time becomes a marvellous thing
14 Febuary – 22 March
Time is a recurrent theme in Jonsson’s images. The passage of time continues unabated; it waits for no one. Time breaks down and deconstructs but it also creates new people, new societies, new images.
The exhibition title comes from Jonsson’s own introduction to the section entitled “Farbror Viktor än en gång” (Uncle Viktor yet again) in his book Timotejvägen from 1961:
You sit at their kitchen table and like them a lot. And they place their bowl with pictures in front of you ... and time becomes a peculiar thing ... a marvellous thing.
The exhibition at Malmö Konsthall presents some 70 images that were previously shown in two separate exhibitions: 35 ögonblick and Och tiden blir ett förunderligt ting. The photographs are part of an oeuvre that spans a 40-year period beginning in the early 1950s.
Sune Jonsson was born in Nyåker in 1930. In 1961 he was employed by Västerbotten Museum as a photographer and field ethnologist. He worked simultaneously on several books of photographs that depicted the vanishing farming culture of northern Sweden. The exhibition is a joint venture with Västerbotten Museum, which is the custodian of Sune Jonsson’s photographs.
Sune Jonsson has published some 20 books and in 1993 was awarded the prestigious Hasselblad Award for his “outstanding photographic achievement”.
And time becomes a marvellous thing
14 Febuary – 22 March
Time is a recurrent theme in Jonsson’s images. The passage of time continues unabated; it waits for no one. Time breaks down and deconstructs but it also creates new people, new societies, new images.
The exhibition title comes from Jonsson’s own introduction to the section entitled “Farbror Viktor än en gång” (Uncle Viktor yet again) in his book Timotejvägen from 1961:
You sit at their kitchen table and like them a lot. And they place their bowl with pictures in front of you ... and time becomes a peculiar thing ... a marvellous thing.
The exhibition at Malmö Konsthall presents some 70 images that were previously shown in two separate exhibitions: 35 ögonblick and Och tiden blir ett förunderligt ting. The photographs are part of an oeuvre that spans a 40-year period beginning in the early 1950s.
Sune Jonsson was born in Nyåker in 1930. In 1961 he was employed by Västerbotten Museum as a photographer and field ethnologist. He worked simultaneously on several books of photographs that depicted the vanishing farming culture of northern Sweden. The exhibition is a joint venture with Västerbotten Museum, which is the custodian of Sune Jonsson’s photographs.
Sune Jonsson has published some 20 books and in 1993 was awarded the prestigious Hasselblad Award for his “outstanding photographic achievement”.